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The New York "bit players" we tend to ignore......
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
ARROW TRAILWAYS......

https://www.transit.wiki/Arrow_Trailways

That Texas company was totally unrelated to the New Jersey company.
I am surprised that the Trailways association permitted a new member (believe the NJ one), to use a similar name as an existing member???
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
ARROW TRAILWAYS......

https://www.transit.wiki/Arrow_Trailways

That Texas company was totally unrelated to the New Jersey company.
I am surprised that the Trailways association permitted a new member (believe the NJ one), to use a similar name as an existing member???


traildriver:

Your posting only further re-enforced the doubts I had myself, regarding "ARROW".

As I said previously, I can still remember a number of times, seeing "ARROW TRAILWAYS" Fishbowls some 40-odd years ago; that the one bus in the photo shows the bus signed for a DE CAMP route (#32) makes it even more of a mystery............. Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

................ARROW TRAILWAYS Fishbowl, way back in 1981, seen here at 47th St. & 7th Avenue.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156759

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ARROW TRAILWAYS and DE CAMP Fishbowls, both buses signed for the "#32".......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156760

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153618

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Three generations of "Boulevard" buses running on the JSQ-PABT "5" are depicted here; WHITE, GM (Fishbowl), and Flex "Dangerfield".

Note all three sport a "5" number card in the windshield, a practice that lasted several decades......,

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153650

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153651

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153641

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even with those type buses, the divide among roll sign makers was evident.

#153651 shows a Trans-Lite roll sign on the front of that Fishbowl.

Both #153618 and #156760 are witness to Transign's handiwork on the top front.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

Yet again, here is another example of what made the bus hobby so interesting, back in the day.

Speaking of roll signs, now that the faithful, long-lived R-32 "Brightliners" have been retired, this leaves the shiny R-68 "Hippos" as the only subway cars in service in "Noo Yawk" still using roll signs.....
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The R-68, the very last "Noo Yawk" subway cars to have roller curtains.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5875

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?66736
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recall, also, the old, now-long gone SIRT roller sign boxes at the entrance to each platform at the St. George terminal.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?22045

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

*Interestingly, though the R-44's on the SIRT were equipped with roller curtains, the old ME-1's were never so equipped.

In fact, when the "Tee-Yay" purchased a group of surplus SIRT cars in the early 50's (for BMT service) old metal destination plates, rescued from scrapped elevated cars, were installed)
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a train of refurbished SIRT ME-1 cars on the BMT's Culver Line; note the old metal sign plates that originally were used in wooden El cars.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112795

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

......Sesame Street has been brought to you today by the letters "F" and "N"......... Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?152081

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?88070

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stillwell Avenue, 1970......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?151441

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This sign recalls the 1960's illuminated "WELCOME ABOARD" sign used at non-jetway TWA gates.....
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For comparison.....

https://thefamilyunit.tumblr.com/post/4624482503/welcome-aboard-kc-airline-history-museum
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems to me that "CONEY ISLAND"* could have been centered here; wasted space, IMHO.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?45566

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*(As with bus roller signs, I much preferred all "caps")......
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Stillwell Avenue, 1970......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?151441

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

This sign recalls the 1960's illuminated "WELCOME ABOARD" sign used at non-jetway TWA gates.....

And as was noted in various subway books, Trans-Lite supplied the original roll signs for these babies.
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